Tasnim News Agency ( fa, خبرگزاری تسنیم) is a semi-official news agency in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. It has links to the

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...

(IRGC). Launched in 2012, its purpose is to cover a variety of political, social, economic and international subjects along with other fields. All its content is licensed as Creative Commons.

Profile

Its stated aims are to " efendthe Islamic Republic against negative media propaganda campaign and providing our readers with realities on the ground about Iran and Islam." As of 2014, Tasnim's main headquarters for news is based in Iran's capital

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, with reporters across the country and region sending in reports. Tasnim has strong links with the

(IRGC). On 10 April 2013 the IRGC chief Mohammad Ali Jafari visited the Tasnim headquarters and was quoted by the news agency saying "The faithful and Revolutionary media have today a very heavy duty in confronting anti-islamic and anti-human plots of the oppressors".

Tasnim English News

Tasnim News Agency maintains a department staffed with dual language speakers of both English and

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

which translates some of the agency's articles into English.

Tasnim Hebrew News

Tasnim Hebrew News officially started publishing news on 3 January 2022.

COVID-19 pandemic

According to a report from the Anti-Defamation League, Tasnim has alleged in a series of articles that

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly ...

is part of "an American and Jewish plot at world domination through population control" hatched by

Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presid ...

, who is described as "the unique Jewish scholar and American strategist" and "a master controller of government and international finance."

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